Mentor Of 3 Africa Kickoff Session

This is the version 1.0 of the MO3Africa Initiative strictly for budding Software Engineerings

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1. @nestedmann_ | @mentorof3africa Version 1.0 Mentor Of 3 Africa Kickoff Session ...carry your candle, run to the darkness
2. Once upon a time, there was darkness...
3. Overview Mentor of Three Africa was birthed as an action plan to the issues analysed from “Rewriting the African Story”. According to the discourse, the biggest problem with the average African is how we think!
4. Overview one lit candle in a very dark is real hope for every other dead candles.
5. Overview But that one lit candle is also at a potential risk of getting quenched, leading to gross darkness!
6. Overview Why struggle to light up the entire room? Coming up with schemes for the masses? Politics or Religion for example. Why not light up just 3! That’s not so much effort right?
7. Overview However, show these 3 how to light up others, that they may do the same. Pass this on. 1 leads to 3. 3 to 9, 9 to 27 and on and on we go.
8. Overview However, show these 3 how to light up others, that they may do the same. Pass this on. 1 leads to 3. 3 to 9, 9 to 27 and on and on we go.
9. Let there be Light!
10. Welcome to Mentor of 3 Africa / Bienvenue
11. Presentation Flow Overview Birth Pains Initiative Objectives Core Values Version 1.0 Tools Strategy The Future Open Source Spread Goodness Q/A
12. Birth Pain ( What led to MO3Africa? )
13. Birth Pain When Matt goes out to the streets to teach the gospel, he soon realised that many young people are either without jobs or are merely living hand to mouth, off the streets - doing illegal or harmful jobs for that matter. A young man schemes scams, and the lady is into prostitution. Most of them ask questions along these lines. “If you are asking me to stop this way of life, what do I do next to survive? What do you want to offer me in return?”
14. Birth Pain It was soon realised then that when you offer to help, a lot of them run off with the little “bread” you’ve given them. Permit me to call these young folks “orphans”. Orphan here is in term of mentorship! Many of them have scary backstories about their childhood and upbringing. They got to that point by the result of decisions made on their behalf and by themselves as well.
15. Birth Pain Here’s the question that led to Mentor Of 3 Africa. Can an African hero raise 3 of their kind out of others who are willing to subject to their tutelage?
16. MO3 Objectives
17. MO3 Objectives For every African hero to create a tree with a depth of 4 in a year. To create little communities or groups of intellectuals or artisans.
18. MO3 Objectives One African hero raises 3 others, taking them in as your siblings, children or comrade. These mentees are not only taught skills but the same values as their mentor. The kind of values expected of heroes of captured in Rewriting the African Story. The core values of MO3 draw from these heroic values :)
19. MO3 Objectives Monitor your downline of mentees till your 3 children get theirs, leading to 9, and 9 get 3 each leading to 27. You can take a rest afterwards Daddy! OR Mommy :D OR You can go on to build another new tree of 3 again, if you enjoyed watching your children running around now as adults! :D It’s that simple. We do not want to create a pyramid of mentors that eventually crashes or is not manageable. We would rather scale horizontally than vertically :D
20. MO3 Objectives Looks simple right?
21. MO3 Core Values
22. Core Values of MO3 Members - CLEFT • Community (Fellowships, Family) • Love (Friendship, Deep Care) • Excellence • Fearless (Daring) • Transparency
23. How you grow...
24. How we grow... GREAT GRAND JEDI GRAND JEDI JEDI SONS/DAUGHTERS
25. Version 1.0 - Software Engineering (Alpha, Experimental)
26. MO3 Africa 1.0 1 To raise Software Engineers using this model. 2 That is just the starting point. The result of the initiative will be publicized. Stories will be told. Blog posts will be written. 3 The result of this scheme will then be duplicated across for other disciplines. 4 Who knows what this might lead to?
27. Tools of the Trade
28. Tools for Version 1.0 The following tools will be needed by participants of MO3 Africa 1.0 for budding Software Engineers Hardware • A computer system with minimal specs • A good internet connectivity
29. Tools for Version 1.0 The following tools will be needed by participants of MO3 Africa 1.0 for budding Software Engineers Software • Evernote or any note taking app • Trello for Planning • Sketch, Balsamiq, Photoshop Or Fireworks • IntelliJ IDEA or Sublime Text • Git • Git Bash/Powershell for Windows Users • NodeJS version 6 and above • Python 3.5 and above
30. Tools for Version 1.0 The following tools will be needed by participants of MO3 Africa 1.0 for budding Software Engineers Communication and Video Conferencing Tools • Slack • Google Hangout for General Meetings • ScreenHero for screen sharing • Zoom.us for General Classes (Recorded Sessions)
31. Tools for Version 1.0 The following tools will be needed by participants of MO3 Africa 1.0 for budding Software Engineers Accounts • Github • Medium • Twitter • Trello • Heroku • Linkedin
32. Strategy! (To manage the numbersl)
33. Strategy • Group everyone into general camps or classes of 25 ◦ The purpose of the general classes is to pass general information such as this kickstart session, or to have general lectures. There’s at least one Jedi in these classes. • The general camp are then further divided into a group of 5. These are specialised groups according to the Software Engineering principles that will be taught.
34. Strategy The Software Engineering groups of 5 will • Create a full software app from scratch • Work together, learning how to build teams, rotate leadership, encourage one another, use all the tools at their disposal to get along together. • Apply the principles of Software Engineering to build their products • Create state of the art projects that address specific African problems • Write about their app and their experiences • Share their apps with the world • Go out to adopt children too and start their own MO3!
35. Who should you adopt? • ONLY those who are willing, who are eager. • ONLY those whom you notice have some of the core values we are looking for • NOT every African will want or embrace this. • NOT everyone will want you to light up their candle • DO NOT force anybody. • It is a rare privilege to be mentored freely!
36. How about funding? Any Financial Charge? • Capital NO! It’s absolutely free • Donations are welcome for those who are willing to give to this cause in order to further advance it or as a way to say thank you to the Jedis. • But No Jedi should force a dime out of anyone, remember it’s a love project
37. Data Collection
38. Data Collection Be kind enough to help complete feedback or survey forms that will be passed around from time to time. It’s to help the initiative grow and become better Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 0 20 40 60 80 100 Trend 01 Trend 02
39. The Future
40. Raising Sons unto Glory! • Turning slaves to sons. • Reinventing Africa • Spreading the message of goodness across Africa • Getting involved in leadership and the politics • Rewriting the story of Africans one line of code at a time • Solving our own peculiar problems • Raising Thinkers!
41. Open Source • MO3 will be Open Sourced for others to copy the model • It will be Open Sourced after 1.0 is complete • The timeline for 1.0 is till June, 2018 • Participants of 1.0 will be opened to new opportunities, through partnerships that will soon be formed with companies, to interview and employ them • Others will go ahead to start their own businesses
42. Ready to spread goodness?
43. Let’s do this together!
44. Let us rewrite our African story!
45. Thank You/Da la/E seun/Na gode!
46. Got Questions?